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Now it’s even banned cryptocurrency advertisers from purchasing Google cached ads<p>Tech companies like Facebook and Google, have recently announced that they’re banning ads for digital currencies. It turns out that Reddit has been banning cryptocurrency ads since early 2016, but just never announced …

AnchorFree, a major VPN provider, just released its 2017 transparency report. This lists government demands for user data by country, and the legal mechanism used. Perhaps the most eye-catching figure is that of the 81 formal legal requests received by the company, an astonishing 63 came from the US<p>…

So much of our lives today are conducted online that it’s essential that we know who has access to our information. And that’s especially true when it’s the government that’s doing the prying into our emails, texts, and Facebook updates.<p>A recent case, in which Facebook acted in the perhaps …

Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card?<p>Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it …

Members of the Senate Commerce Committee challenged Equifax's chief executive Wednesday about the credit reporting agency's sweeping data collection and its one-sided relationship with millions of Americans whose personal information it harvests for profit.<p>Equifax revealed in September that …

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, announced charges on Monday against three advisers to President Trump’s campaign and laid out the most explicit evidence to date that his campaign was eager to coordinate with the Russian government to damage his rival, Hillary Clinton.<p>The …

Investigators believe that software from Russia's top cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, was involved in a theft of top-secret National Security Agency intelligence outlining how the US hacks its adversaries, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.<p>And depending on what was stolen, the breach …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation denied a request for information about Hillary Clinton and gave what some might consider to be a ridiculous excuse for the declination.<p>The FBI says there is not enough public interest to merit releasing the information.<p>Fox News obtained the letter explaining to a …

 Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism  Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch  Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls  Company says it is legally compelled to comply<p>Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services …